BODY WATCH : DOWNTIME : Still Knitting the Night Away

My blissful time alone when I was a young mother was after I’d put my children to sleep. I’d sit down in a stuffed armchair and watch television and knit . That was my best therapy. Now that I’m 80 years old, I still do it and find it very relaxing and soothing with all the troubles in the world.

--ANNA FLEISHMAN,

Los Angeles

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